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• Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Art Reference Blue N40.T5)
  • Most comprehensive biographical dictionary to date
  • Also known as Thieme-Becker
• Architecture and Design Collection (University Art Museum)
  • Archives over 350 architects and designers mainly from California
• Artists in Canada
  • Online version of Colin S. MacDonald's Dictionary of Canadian Artists
• Biography Resource Center
  • Biographical Information on more than 1 million people throughout history
• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Dictionary of Artists (Art Reference Blue N40.B4713 2006)
  • English edition of Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique et documentaire
    
  • Some entries include sales information and signatures or monograms
• Oxford Art Online
  • Over 21,000 biographies, capable of searching by name, by date and place of birth, by nationality, and by occupation
• Union Lists of Artists Names (ULAN)
  • Free resource from the Getty, bringing together variant names and based biographical data
  • Over 118,000 international and historical artists and architects
• Who's Who in American Art (Art Reference Blue N6536.W5)
  • Bienniel directory good for lesser known artists and non-artists (critics, historians, etc.)